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Apr 24, 2026
NewsDays after announcing a price cut for the existing Xbox Game Pass tiers, which'll no longer get new Call of Duty games at launch, it appears Microsoft have an all-new tier lurking up their sleeves. Du...
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Apr 24, 2026
NewsMicrosoft Gaming is reverting to Xbox under its new leadership, it has announced, as part of a sweeping new mission statement shared with staff.
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Apr 24, 2026
NewsYou know an action game has the magic when you come out of a sequence thinking "How the hell did I survive that?" Your hands shaking with adrenaline, the controller slick with sweat. Sekiro had it. Do...
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Apr 24, 2026
NewsMeta is conducting further cuts as it continues to move resources to AI-related investments.
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Apr 24, 2026
NewsWarner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shareholders have "overwhelmingly" approved Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition.
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsLast month, a report emerged that claimed that Sony would no longer be putting its first-party games like Ghost of Yotei on PC, with online games like Marathon being the exception. The PlayStation mak...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsI delight in looking at shapes, I suspect we all do. They are the building blocks of life, often turned into literal building blocks handed to us as wee babes to help us make sense of the world. Games...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsI have never played the knife game, the game where you rest your hand on a table, splay out your fingers, and stab the gaps between with a knife, increasing your speed as you go. The reason I have not...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsFilming of the A24-backed and Alex-Garland-directed Elden Ring movie (a series of words that still sounds preposterous to me) is now in full swing. And that means leaks, which this time include high-s...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsAfter a rough launch last year, work on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 continues, with the game's first DLC, Loose Cannon, having now settled on a release date: April 27th! That's soon, like n...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsOne Pragmata player with a keen eye for website domains has taken a fake, unclaimed website from inside the game and made it their own with humorous references to Resident Evil's naughty Albert Wesker...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsYes, it's finally happened. After three long years of rumours, reports , leaks, a couple of official teases, and then, last month, confirmation the whole thing was real , Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Bl...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsYep, after years of messages in bottles washing ashore in the form of reports claiming Ubisoft are remaking Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, it’s finally coming on July 9th . I've seen the new...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsMayhaps ye have heard the legend of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced , the remake Ubisoft have finally revealed today , April 23rd, after years of reported and leaked whispers. Ahead of this...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsI know that Conan Exiles exists because everything must be based on some kind of pre-existing property. Still, the fact it's managed to continue to exist for a whole decade tickles me. What do you mea...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsWelcome brethren of advancing years to this ancient house of reminiscences. Developer Trilobytes' seminal CD-ROM adventure The 7th Guest is being revived once more; evil toymaker Henry Stauf throwing...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsNintendo's creative overlord Shigeru Miyamoto has been taken aback by the negative reviews received by The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , which he helped make.
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsNew Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the collaboration between Discord and Xbox will continue, as the renewed Game Pass push continues.
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsThe German games industry is slowly recovering from the effects of international consolidation and funding uncertainty, aided by substantial backing from the government .
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsOne of the privileges of being a journalist is that you get to indulge your nosiness. So after wondering how things have been going at Rovio since the Finnish Angry Birds firm was bought by Sega in 20...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsWe called Mohawk's strategy game Old World "almost the perfect blend of Civilization and Crusader Kings III" back in 2021. As such, the opinions of people who worked on Old World are of interest to me...
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsThe Stop Killing Games movement, which recently made its case convincingly in European Parliament , has claimed some kind of responsibility for Ubisoft's ongoing offline support of The Crew 2 .
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsOrganisers of Gamescom Dev have announced the initial speakers and sessions for the upcoming conference in August.
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Apr 23, 2026
NewsUnreasonably grand strategy game Europa Universalis 5 will get a Byzantine Empire-themed expansion called Fate of the Phoenix on May 6th, developers Paradox Interactive have announced. Not heard of EU...
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